On the server side, this.connection.clientAddress occasionally returns 127.0.0.1 for some users at random, even though my server is not behind any proxy or load balancer

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On the server side, this.connection.clientAddress occasionally returns 127.0.0.1 for some users at random, even though my server is not behind any proxy or load balancer. This behavior is inconsistent and I haven’t been able to identify the root cause or find any reliable solution to fix it yet. Any real solution ?

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Do you have an small poc that reproduces it?
what is your host provider?

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We don’t have clear reproduction steps, as the issue occurs very rarely. However, we update the IP address each time a user logs in using the following code. We use galaxy cloud for hosting.

Meteor.users.update(
            { _id: user._id, },
            {
              $set: {
              ipAddress: this.connection.clientAddress,
              },
            }
          );
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I have given the piece of code. Please check and update for any solution

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I will help you with this. I see you are very patient, so please give me till November.
2026.

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@paulishca I’m hoping you mean November 2025, not 2026? We are not that patient that we can wait for more than a year. We use mostly default setup with Galaxy Cloud, standard functions and no proxy and we do pay for your services, so we expect that this is looked into on short term.

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@Jacqueline
Nice to know you are using Galaxy, do you mind to create an simple application that uses a similar setup(meteor version, network settings, pkg.json config)? I can deploy this test-app into galaxy and create an script to try to catch that bug.

Since you use galaxy on it, you can open a ticket so everything wll be under NDA and prioritized.

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Possibly your Meteor settings.json baseUrl getting overwritten or incorrectly set?

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another thing, are you setting ROOT_URL?